Why Do Mail Contacts Now Include iCloud?

I have a 21.5" mid-2011 iMac running Yosemite 10.10.3.
My ISP is AT&T, which means that my email goes thru Yahoo. Because I've had problems with Safari and Yahoo not playing well together, I always use Mail (currently v 8.2) on my iMac even tho it does go thru Yahoo. (If that makes sense.)
Recently I noticed that my Contacts ( currently 9.0) seemed a little strange in that there were duplicates or in some cases they were sorted by different names. Finally decided to clean them up. So one of the 1st things I noticed was that when I opened Contacts, I saw the following:
Previously, I saw the sbcglobal.net and the On My Mac groups. Don't remember if 'Smart Groups' was included. Now I have iCloud in the list.
I don't know when I acquired the category for iCloud. I only have an iMac (no MBP, no iPhone yet, no nothing) and have no current need to use iCloud for storage. Is it possible that when I upgraded to Yosemite from Mountain Lion that an iCloud account was created? If so, wouldn't I have had do actually do something to make that happen?

You would have had to check the Contacts box in iCloud System Preferences when you signed into iCloud the first time. It may have been checked by default.

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